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VOLUME XCV
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EDITORIAL NOTE*.
Seuiocb complications are reported in j
Egypt regarding financial measures. It is a ’
long time since Egypt was out of difficulty <
over financial measures. 1
It was a mistake for Guinan to tell the ]
jury that the Stalwarts had sent him checks t
for 92,000. The jury will never suspect ,
that the checks are bogus. ;
* * I
The New York Star says: "Talmage
vividly depicts the eternal torments that
await the sharks of Wall street. The inge
nuity of Satan must be put severely to the
teat to find adequate tortures for Gould, <
VandKubiM’ and Kkf.se ” t
t
Ghnkhal Bubsbidgz and Congressman ,
HI.ACXBUBN seem to be fighting their duel j
through the mails, which is undoubtedly t
the better way. The pen is not particularly ,
dangerous to human life. The discussion j
is not at all a profitable one, and nothing, f
however, can be gained by it at this time. (
Sixteen ont of twenty-one Massachusetts
cities report smaller debts thn one year ago.
Among these is Boston, whose indebted- (
ness is 924,248,046 60 against 926,668,- 1
459 41 at the close of 1880. This is a ’
movement in the right direction in which.
in these prosperous times, ail cities should (
share f
Wx hardly think that the Pennsylvania i
"Kepriisentative'H scheme for an amendment '
to the Constitution, providing for a new t
wiode of electing United States Senators, i
w.ill meet with much encouragement. It is <
too manifest what its object is to succeed. 1
The present system works well and no i
change is needed. I c
It is the general impression among law- ! ’
yers and Court officials in Washington that |
the cusa of Guitbau will go to the jury on Fri- '
day evening or Saturday morning; and it is ’
also the general impression in the same cir- I
cles that the jury will not be out an hour 1
until the return a verdict of "guilty of mur- ‘
dor in the first degree.” , '
Ir Bbrnhardt really received the price i t
said to have lieen ]>aid her tor her perform- i
ances in St. Petersburg, she can afford to , ]
laugh at the £toues which she says the i
•Christians had thrown at her for being a Jew, 1
isd the cucumbers with which the Jews i
had pelted her for being a Christian, on her i
■way northward from Odessa especially as i
who does not claim that these missiles reach- i
ed her. i
Tnn painfni emotions excited a year since
"by the announcement that potatoes were | (
being shipped from Ireland to New York ;
are intensified by the news that the cab- | .
bage market of Gotham is being supplied j (
from Germany and Denmark. Patriotism i t
unust be at a very low ebb in the Empire | (
it the people are willing to admit that |
t -be soil of the Republic is not fit to grow , ’
cj.xbbagee. _ t (
It is said that Dr. Buss thinks the doc- <
tore’ fees in the Uari’ikld case ought to be i
divided in this way. Bubs, 950,000; Ao- |1
siw and Hamilton, 925.000 eac h; Kktbwkn, ; <
98,000; Dr. Botnton and Mrs. Edson, • ■
91,000—total, SIIO,OOO. This is pretty 11
steep and will not be submitted to by Con- 11
Dr. Bliss would be amply compen- I i
<at<xi tor his quarter of a year with $20,000, i i
the two consulting physicians, who were i I
ow obliged to give up their practice, with I i
•910,4X10 each, or >15,000, and the others '
proportionally.
** I
Thk real estate valuation in Boston is I
3455,383,000 -an increase of 918,000,000
n the last year. The personal property ,
valuation is $210,130.000-an increase of
SB,OtX».OOIY The whole taxable valuation !
is .$639.462,000—a gain of $26,000,000,
the largest gain observable for many years.
The increased value of real estate in the
city attracts attention. It is said that the
transactions in real estate last year were
very large, many capitalists disposing of
rstocks and bonds and investing in lands
and buildings.
lx the treatment of the bills submitted to
iTongnw in connection with the illness
aitd death of President Garfikw, the
House committee haring the matter in
chai-ge ** *■ understood, proceed upon
a strict business basis, requiring that all
claims shall be itemized and sworn to. pre- ■
-cfaely as would be required in a Probate j
Court. In this way it is expected that log
jrolling and lobbying will be avoided, and
jbat tbe Nation will be just, as well aa gen- \
erous. in providing for this sacred demand !
upon the Treasury.
It would be a deserved retribution for
3a itbb if the rebellion of Obth should lead !
tea.n alliance of the discontented Repnbli- :
and Democrats in undoing thS scandal
ously unjust arrangement of the commit
ted of ti?« House. Obth is not the sort of
a leader the Democrats would voluntarily
choose to head any movement, but his de
fection might be availed of to start this, in
-which any leadership ought to be followed
that promises the discomfiture of Ketfkb
and the secret junta back of him.
Tub Philadelphia limtf says : "It is not
at all strange that many of the colored peo
ple who left South Carolina for Arkansas
have returned to their homes, and that those
coming back now outnumber those going
away. These negroes were misled by a
preacher of their own color, wBo seems to
have taken advantage of their ignorance to
deceive them tor hia own profit.” The
■tatement that the colored Republicans in
Arkrn*as are organising with a view to try
ing to control the State, gives a new signifi
cance to the movement.
TIIK MAVANNAII VAt.LKV RAILROAD.
We are net >lf those who think Augusta
shall consent to the sacrifice of her com
mercial interest in consideration of becom
ing a great manufacturing centre. We cap
itally doubt if anything is gained by sacri
ficing commerce to manufactures. But
why make the sacrifice ? Certainly no good
reason exists why the one means of pros
perity shall be antagonistic with the other.
They should rather keep pace together.
They should assist each other, for Augusta
is situated as advantageously for commerce
as for manufactories. There is absolutely
no rival which could successfully compete
with her if the business men of Augusta
would determine to grasp with a strong
hand the lucrative traffic within their reach.
Atlanta is 171 miles distant, Macon 125,
Savannah 125, Columbia 87, and for the
trade of the Upper Savannah Valley she
would meet no practical competition if
through her assistance a line of rail
road was built some 75 miles long
to Elberton. Gathering then into her
lap the traffic of both sides of the Savannah,
which*would as naturally seek Augusta as
the water seeks the sea, she would enter
upon a new era of prosperity and power,
overshadowing any period of her past his
tory. With a new outlet then to the West
and North, the bugaboo ot freight discrim
inations would disappear. Build this line
and the traffic will come. Build this line
and. our word for it, the power of the roads
to discriminate against Augusta as to freight
rates will be effectually broken. Hence the
need of this improvement is immediate.
No plea of poverty is admissible. Augusta
is not poor. When the staunch little county
of Elbert can afford, unassisted and alone,
to invest fifty-three thousand dollar! in a
railroad, the time is passed for the prosper
ous and wealthy city of Augusta to say she
cannot spare fifty thousand. Surely our
citizens can accomplish what the little coun
ty of Elbert did, particularly when the
difference in the result sought is considered.
Elbert expended the sum for her own
benefit. Augusta will make the investment
for her own advantage. But Augusta will
obtain by the expenditure the traffic of per
haps a dozen counties, whilst Elbert only
gained an outlet to a market. Is further ar
gument needed to show the beneficial re
sults to accrue from the expenditure ? We
think not. Nor do we believe a great dßal
•f talk is necessary to raise the amount.
Words will not do it. We must act. Let
the business men meet together, therefore,
and briefly discuss the subject in a purely
business manner and view -not with high
sounding declamation • and then appoint a
committeeof influential commercial citizens
to solicit subscriptions, and the grand ob
ject will be efccomplished. Os this result
we feel assured. Bnt we would urge imme
diate action. When we candidly state that
the building of this line will bring us a
volume es trade equal to that now brought
here by the six railroads at present in opera
tion, we do not perhaps over-estimate its
value, and, if this is true, nil citizens will
agree that we should no longer proiwasti
nate.
MAHONKINM IN GEORGIA.
It is said that during the recent exciting
Gubernatorial campaign in Virginia that
Senator Mahonk received hundreds of let
ters from representative Southern men, in
which they wished him abundant success
in his effort to break down Bonrbon rule in
that State. This assertion may and may
not be true. We doubt the statement. The
hundreds may dwindle to scores and the
scores to tens, for in the heat of a fierce po
litical contest exaggeration is the rule. Un
scrupulous partisans enumerate rapidly.
They acknowledge no rule of arithmetic in
their computations. Perhaps, when victory
crowned his endeavors, many more of the
disaffected congratulated the Readjuster
chief, for there is a glamour about success
which readily sways the imagination. Bnt
that man must be highly imaginative, at
this period of Georgia’a history, when the
memory of that hell of Republican rule
which succeeded the war is fresh in the
minds of tens of thousands of her citi
zens, who can have hope of the suc
cess of any coalition in which the
Radical party is a partner. And as yet only
a single straw which indicates the shadow
of Mahoneism here has floated feebly upon
the calm water of Georgia politics. That
his peculiar political theories will ever take
even a surface root in this Commonwealth
we capitally doubt. That a coalition of any
power or magnitude can ever be formed be
tween the hungry and soured office-seekers
of Georgia and the Republicans of Georgia
is to give the latter credit for a mere modi
cum of sense. Were the alliance completed
so far as the signing of the articles of agree
ment between the leaders of each side —the
high contracting parties -neither would be
able to deliver the votes. They could not
bring together enough at the polls to win
victory. Such dissimilar elements would
not mix. But if success—of which there is
no hope was gained by the mongrels,
where would the colored citizen come in for
a portion of the spoils ? So far as the Fed
eral offices go the appointing power resides
at Washington, and is already controlled by
a Republican administration. Yet compara
tively few of its colored voters enjoy the
emoluments of office at the South and fewer
still at the North. How much less would
be the chances of the colored race for pre
ferment if a hungry set |of white men, re
pudiated by the Democracy and in expecta
tion of reward for turning against the bet
ter class of their own race, were in pursuit
of the same "loaves and fishes?” In Vir
ginia, where victory was achieved by the
help of colored men, how were the offices
distributed? A single example will suffice
—Riddlkbkboeb, a Confederate soldier and
a Repndiationist, was sent to the Senate,
though half a dozen competent Republicans
deserved the high position. Colored citi
zens and Republicans knows these facts and
they wonld be the veriest fools to be led in
Georgia to almost inevitable defeat; or if to
victory, then to have the spoils of the fight
they have won gathered by their disreput
able allies. White men can only be tempt
ed from their allegiance to the Democratic
party by the bribe of office. And on the
banners of the only successful mongrel
party in the South is inscribed—“No
negroes and no Republicans need apply.”
Intelligent colored voters as well as shrewd
Republicans will think twice before they
consent to be led on a wild goose chase
such as this.
Ihk London Spectator asks what is the
use of haring any trouble about the Bun
wkb-Clattos treaty? It says: “England
has two very good reasons tor not challeng
ing the claim put forward on behalf of the
United States. Th« first is that it is not
worth her while. Undoubtedly, the exis
tence of the Ciayton-Bclwkb treaty gives
us a technical locus standi, of which we may
avail ourselves if we choose. As matters
stand, the United States are under an obli
gation not to fortify the canal, and they can
not get properly rid of this obligation if we
do not choose to release them from it, in
other words, under the Claytok-Bui-web
treaty, we have a right to make the asser
tion of this claim to set aside certain of its
provisions a casus belli. If we went to war
in defense of the treaty as it stands we
should not be going beyond our rights in
the view of international law. But what
should we gain by vindicating them ? The
maintenance in time of peace of a state of
things which would necessarily come to an
end in time of war. Let it be granted that,
either fey threatening or actually fighting,
we succeeded in maintaining the Ouattom-
Bvlwkb treaty in its present shape, what
would happen if war should, after all, break
out between us and America on some other
question ? Obviously, that the United
States would at once occupy and fortify
both ends of the canal. We should be no
better off in the end, therefore, by rejecting
Mr. Busin's proposal.”
. What good is to be accomplished by the
Woman Suffrage Committee remains to be
seen. Only two Democrats—Ristsom, of
North Carolina, and Joints, of Florida—
- voted for the appointment of the commit
■ tee. It received the vote of every Republi
can Senator.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
A BUSY DAY IN THE TWO HDI'SER.
Mr. Vret Spralu In Opposition to Sher
mnn'a Funding Bill—fir Hna Something
to Nay About the National Banlu—Orth
OWera a Rraolutlon in the House In Re
gan! to the Appointment at the Com
laltleea.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
SENATE.
Washington, January lO.—Mr. Bayard,
from the Finance Committee, reported,
with recommendation that it pass, the Mor
rill Tariff Commission bill, and also with
an adverse report, the Garland Commission
bill. He said he favored the mode of con
stituting the commission prescribed in the
former (namely, from among civilians) as
tending to remove the tariff question from the
arena of sectional or partisan feeling, of the
existence of which Congressmen were fully
conscious. Proceeding to argue the neces
sity for immediate action to correct the in
congruities and inefficiency of the existing
tariff, he characterized its class legislation
for the benefit of a few as a perversion of
legislation. He repudiated the doctrine
that what is wanted is tariff for protection,
with incidental revenue, and argued that
taxation to be just must be uniform, and to
be uniform must be universal. The para
mount purpose in tariff taxation should be
to provide for the expenses of the Govern
ment, and the incidental result of this ip
fostering our industries might be wisely
considered, not as the controlling motive in
laying the taxes, but as one of its inevitable
results. He did not propose now to dis
cuss the principles of tariff taxation at any
length; they were soon to be acted upon
by the representatives of the people. The war
taxes of the present tariff were out of date
in a time of peace. In illustration of this,
he referred to duties on various articles.
Upon the conclusion of Mr. Bayard’s re
marks, the morning hour having" been in
formally extended, the Sherman Funding
bill came up, but was temporarily laid aside
without a vote, and Mr. Beck took the
floor, and delivered a long speech in oppo
sition to Morrill’s bill. Mr. Beck opposed
the bill as a cunning scheme of monopolists
for delay, to which they had resorted, not
only as u means of preventing legislation by
the present Congress, but of whitewashing
all the enormities of the high protective
system. He wanted to have immediate ac
tion upon the tariff', and asserted that all
that the commission would find out as a
basis of judicious reduction of taxation
conld be presented by a committee of the
Senate and furnished to the Ways and
•Means Committee ot the House within six
weeks. The nine men whom it was pro
posed to have the President select might re
tuse to hear whatever did not suit them,
and would not be accountable for misrepre
sentation in their report. The evident
purpose of the so-called protectionists, as
shown by the declarations of their organs
and conventions, was to have a commission
which would be committed to their inter
est. The declaration of the Senator from
Vermont (Morrill), that "the changes
should be made by friqndly hands,
and not by ill informed and reck
less revolutionists,” was easily un
derstood. This, however, was an im
peachment of the integrity and capac
ity of Congress one House of which was
charged by the Constitution with originat
ing bills for raising revenue or changing
taxation, upon the theory that the account
ability of its members every two years would
make them careful. The success of infant
Southern cotton industries demonstrated
that the only protection such indus
tries require to compete with old and estab
lished ones was proximity to the raw mate
rial and a market for their product. Georgia,
in this direction, was more successfully
competing with New England than the lat
ter in a free contest in cotton product with
Great Britain; and he would vote to ex
empt cotton machinery from tax byway of
encouraging home competing industry, and
he would also make the iron cotton tie free.
He would do this in compensation to the
cotton planters for sixty million dollars of
which they were robbed by the unjnst cot
ton tax of 1865-’66, and to make them even
with New England manufacturers, who had,
for fifteen years, the benefit of the war tariff.
After detailing at much length the incon
gruities and inequalities of the present
system and advocating a tariff for rev
enue, framed so as to be readily under
stood and adjusted upon the ad valorem
principle as far as practicable, Mr. Beck
closed by criticising with some severity the
recommendations of the Secretary of the
Treasury for the withdrawal of silver cer
tificates and placing of currency in the
hands of the National banks. He incident
ally referred to what he called the absurdity
of any effort to abolish internal taxation in
view of the present wants of the Treasury.
Mr. Beck occupied the floor nearly three
hours, closing at 4:10. He was attentively
listened to throughout by an almost full
Senate, and some members of the House.
Mr. Morrill, rising to reply to a few of
the points made by Mr. Beck, said he had
not been ignorant of that Senator’s inten
tion to deal sharply with his argument, and
he (Morrill) now wished to say he was
about as well as could be expected; that he
needed neither to haul off for repairs nor
wait to find ammunition. The Senator
seemed to have jumped into the contro
versy for the purpose of heading off’ the
growing prosperity of the South, which had
now to some extent, at least, embarked in
manufactures, and had so highly commend
ed all chief advocates of free trade that he
would doubtless induce his party to
follow in that direction. As to the
cotton tax, of which the Senator com
plained, that was about the only tax paid
by the South, while the North, West and
East paid thousands of millions to support
the Government. If he (Morrill) was a
Southern man he would levy an internal
revenue tax upon every pound of cotton
jiroduced in this country, except that for
family use, and make a drawback of an
equal amount upon the manufactured arti
cles of thread, yarn, etc., sent abroad. He
believed this would in a short time double
the total of Southern exports. Here the de
bate, which had continued by unanimous
consent, terminated and the Chair laid be
fore the Senate the unfinished Sherman
Funding bill. At 4:20 the Senate ad
journed.
HOUSE. 1
Mr. Benjamin Wood, of New York, ap- .
peared at the bar of the House and qualified i
as a member. The House then, as the regu
lar order, resumed consideration of the
Utah contested election case, the pending
resolution being that offered by Mr. Has- j
kell, of Kansas, declaring that “Allen G. ,
Campbell, Delegate elect from Utah Terri
tory, is entitled to be sworn in as delegate .
on his prirna jade case/’ Mr. Reed, of ■
Maine, offered as a substitute a resolution, j
referring to the Committee on Elections the ,
question of prima fade right as between '
Campbell and Cannon to be sworn in as a
Delegate from Utah, together with all cer- ,
tificates and papers presented on each side,
with instructions to that committee to re
port at as early a day as possible.
After a spicy debate, in which Messrs.
Haskell and Cox were the principal 'speak
ers, Mr. Reed modified his substitute so as
to refer to the Committee on Elections not
only the decision of the prima facie case,
but also the final decision of the contest,
and proceeded to argue in favor of his
proposition.
Mr. McCoid, of lowa, sent to the Clerk’s
desk and had read a resolution, which he
said he would offeaat the proper time as a
substititute for the pending resolution. It
is long and to the effect that it is inconsis
tent with the rights and dignity of the
Honse that Territory of Utah, which is
so flagrantly controlled by the institution
of polygamy, should be entitled to repre
sentation on the floor of the House; that
delegates claiming a seat from that Terri
tory are declared disqualified, and that all
papers in this case be referred to the Com
mittee on Elections, with instructions to
present a bill declaring, with effect, the
judgment of the House as herein expressed.
Mr. McCoid made an exhaustive argument
in favor of hia proposition. The debate
was further participated in by Messrs. Con
verse, Hiscock and Robeson. Finally Mr.
Haskell demanded the previous question,
which being seconded, sut off Mr. Marsh, of
Illinois, who desired to offer a resolution
directing the Committee on Elections to re
port on the fact whether either of the claim
ants were practical polygamists. Mr. Has
kell then stated that he desired to offer a
resolution, giving certain instructions to
the Committee on Elections in case the
matter was referred to it. It was read, as
follows:
Whereas, Polygamy'has been for many
years and is now practiced in several of the
Territories of the United States, in contra
vention of the laws thereof; and whereas,
there has been admitted into former Con
gresses of the United States a delegate from
the Territory of Utah, who has served in
the House of Representatives as such while
sustaining polygamous marital relations
(uidr documents in contested election case
of Cannon vs. Campbell), therefore
Be it resolved as the fixed and final determi
nation cf the House of Representatives of the
fbrty-sevenlh Congress, That no person
guilty of living in polygamous marital rela-
or of teaching or instigating others to
do so, is entitled to be admitted in this
House as a delegate from any Territory of
the United States.
The reading of this resolution was re
ceived with applause. Mr. Randall raised
the point of order that the resolution was
not germaine to the case under considera
tion. He protested against the idea that in
voting upon the pending resolution mem
bers were expressing any opinion on the
subject of polygamy. The Speaker held
that the resolution did not give such in
structions to the committee as were com
prehended in the rules, and therefore ruled
it out of order.
Mr. Reed's substitute was then adopted
189 to 24 - the negatives being all Republi
cans, and the contested case was thereby
referred to the Committee on Elections.
Mr. Haskell then desired to offer, as a
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MOBNING, JANUARY 18. 1882.
privileged question, the resolution given
above, but was cut off by a motion to ad
journ, which was, at 4:50, p, m., carried,
SENATE.
Washington, January 11.—A number of
petitions were presented for a commission
to inquire into the liquor and alcoholic
trade. Nearly every Senator presented one
or more memorial on the subject.
The President pro tem. announced the
Special Committee on the Rights of Women,
under the resolution of Senator Hoar, as
follows: Lapham, Anthony, Ferry, Blair,
Jackson and Fair.
At the end of the morning hour the Sher,
man Funding bill was taken up and Mr.
Vest addressed the Senate. He claimed that
the Democratic funding bill of the last
Congress would have saved the people 915,-
500,000 a year interest on the public debt,
and that this waa prevented by the Repub
lican party. He said he was not attacking
the National banks, but he did attack the
vast power vested in them. He condemned
the legislation which had given the National
banks power to contract or expand the debt
at will. He declared that the National
banks have grown in wealth and power to
such an extent that they do not intend to
surrender their charters or their existence.
These banks can only continue with the
national debt, and they don’t propose to
have the public debt paid off because it
would wipe them out. He insisted that the
issue between aggregated capital in the
National banks, on the one side, and the
people on the other, is now presented, and
he arrayed himself on the side of the peo
ple. He criticised McPherson for his re
marks yesterday in behalf and in support
of National banks, and said this was not
Democratic doctrine, that the Democratic
party does not sympathize with the Nateonal
banks.
After further remarks by McPherson
and Sherman upon the accuracy of the
statement of the latter that the 3 per cent,
proposed by the vetoed bill of last year
could not have been sold at par, Garland
was awarded the floor. The debate was
suspended, and after a brief executive ses
sion the Senate adjourned at 4:10.
The Senate confirmed the nomination of
Jack Wharton to be United States Marshal
for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and
Charles T. Dougherty,Postmaster at Deni
son City, Texas.
Mr. Anthony stated that on the 19th
inst. he would ask leave to submit resolu
tions of respect for the memory of his late
colleague, Ambrose Burnside.
Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, gave notice
that on the 25th he would present reaolu
tions in commemoration ot the late M. H.
Carpenter.
Nir. Brown offered a resolution, which was
laid over, supplying each Senator who is
not the Chairman of a committee with a
clerk.
Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on
Military Affairs, reported favorably a bill to
authorize the sale of the military barracks,
etc., in Savannah, Ga.
HOUSE.
Mr. Orth, of Indiana, offered a resolution
instructing the Committee on Civil Service
Reform to inquire into the expediency of
providing a mode different from the pres
ent for the appointment of the committees
of the House, with leave to report at any
time. The Speaker, holding that the reso
lution related to a change of rules, stated
that it would be referred to the Committee
ou Rules. To this reference Orth objected,
and moved that the resolution be referred
to the Committee on Civil Service Reform.
On a division this motion was lost—ss to
87 -but Orth demanded the yeas and nays.
This motion was defeated—yeas, 85; nays,
39 —and the resolution was referred to the
Committee on Rules.
The Polygamy debate came up again on
an attempt by Haskell, of Kansas, to pre
sent as a privileged question the resolution
which be failed to have considered yester
day. It was finally declared —lO9 to 139
that no question of privilege was involved
in the resolution. The Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads reported favorably a
resolution calling on the Postmaster-Gen
eral for detailed information m regard to
mail transportation since March 4th, 1881
adopted. Further committee reports were
then called. The Committee on Appropria
tions reported a bill making an appropria
tion as 9540,000 for the final expenses of
the tenth census—referred to the Commit
tee of the Whole. Mr. Hiscock gave notice
that he would, to-morrow, ask to have the
bill considered. The Committee on the
District of Columbia reported hack a bill to
incorporate the Garfield Memorial Hos
pital. The House calendar was then
taken up. Burrows, of Michigan, ask
ed leave to introduce and put on
its passage a bill defining the qualifi
cations of territorial delegates. It pro
vides that no. person shall hereafter be
admitted as a delegate from any Territory
who shall not have attained the age of 25
years and been for seven years a citizen of
the United States, and that no such person
who is living in bigamy or polygamy shall
be eligible to sit in the House as such a del
egate. Armfleld, of North Carolina, and
Singleton, of Illinois, objected, and Bur
rows, stating that he had mistaken the sen
timent of the other side, gave notice that he
would introduce the bill again on Monday.
Willis, of Kentucky, offered a resolution
calling on the Secretary of War for informa
tion as to what additional work is necessary
at the falls of the Ohio river to complete the
improvement thereof—adopted. Robeson,
ot New Jersey, introduced a bill to declare
certain lands heretofore granted to railroad
companies forfeited to the United States.
A contest arose as to which committee the
bill belonged—whether to the Committee on
Public Lands or the Committee on the Pa
cific Railroad- and pending a decision the
Speaker laid before the House a number of
executive communications, transmitting in
formation from Departments; also, the me
morial of the General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church in reference so polygamy
referred. The House, at 3:20, adjourned.
ANOTHER INSANITY CASE.
An Incident Related by Senator David
Davis, of Illinois,
(Washington Post.)
Referring to the Guiteau trial and to the
opinion of Dr. Andrew McFarland, of Illi
nois, that Guiteau is insane, Senator David
Davis relates the following interesting facts,
as showing the great liability to misjudge
as to the mental condition of men on trial
for crime and alleged to be insane, and the
reliability of the judgment of Dr. McFar
land as an expert in such cases. The Sena
tor says that while he occupied the bench
of the Bloomington (Illinois) Circuit, a man
under indictment for murder was tried be
fore him. In this case the killing was ad
mitted, and insanity was the plea of the
defense. Abraham Lincoln, of Springfield,
and Leonard Swett, of Bloomington, the
two most distinguished lawyers of Central
Illinois, appeared in the case—Lincoln for
the prosecution, Swett for the defense. —
A large preponderance of the testimony
of the experts favored the sanity of the
prisoner. •
Dr. McFarland stood almost alone in an
opposite view of the case. His testimony
was decided and emphatic, that the ac
cused was insane. After hearing all the
testimony in the case, listening to the ar
guments of the distinguished counsel, and
observing closely the appearance and be
havior of the prisoner during the protracted
trial, Senator Davis says that he became
convinced that the accused was sane; and
that Dr. MbFarland had erred in Tiis diag
nosis of the case. The jury, however, re
turned a verdict cf “not guilty.” Imme
diately after the acquittal of the accused, he
was committed to an insane asylum, when
the fact soon became unmistakably appa
rent that he was insane, and in a short
time afterwards he died a maniac. "The
sequel showed,” adds Judge Davis, “that
Dr. McFarland, in his testimony as to the
insanity es the man, was correct, and I was
wrong in my conclusion that he was sane.”
REPUBLICANS IN CONSULTATION.
Getting Matters Ready For the Proposed
Coalition in the Next Campaign.
(Atlaata Constitution.)
During this week the leading Atlanta Re
publicans, together with several members of
the party from various portions of the State,
have been busily engaged in clearing off the
battle ground and arranging the details of
the coming struggle. So far nothing special
ly important has transpired. It will be re
membered that at the meeting of the State
Central Committee, Saturday, an Executive
Committee was appointed. That committee
was composed of Colonel A. E. Buck, Chair
man; General James Longstreet, Judge J.
8. Bigby, 0. B. Forsyth, W. A. Pledger, W.
H. Heard, Andrew Clark, R. R. Wright, W.
W. Brown, George S. Thomas, H. P. Far
row, J. F. Long, Jack Brown, E. C. Wade,
M. A. Wood, R. H. Carter, J. H. Brown, E.
R. Belcher, S. A. Darnell, K. D. Loke, J.
M. Jones and D- F. Douglass. It is not
known that all of these gentlemen will act.
The committee met Thursday and com
menced its labors, but finally adjourned,
leaving the work which was given it to do in
the hands of several members, who have
since been endeavoring to get matters in
shape. As the meetings of the committee
have been held in private, the Oonstiiuiion
is unable to give the public a detailed state
i ment of what occurred. Matters are, how
ever, known to be in a shape that may de
velop into something interesting in a few
days.
A* Oflee Abeilatird.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
New York, January 10.—Collector Rob
ertson has abolished the office of Superin
tendent of United States Weighers, created
by his predecessor, who had appointed Mr.
Lake, of Fredonia, New York, to that office
at a salary of 93,500 a year. The intima
tion for ths abolition of the office came from
Washington, and the office ceases to exist
from February Ist.
LETTER EKUH WASHINGTON.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, January 8, 1882.—Yester
day there was a thaw which made slush;
but the appearance of the snn, after some
days absence, atoned for that discomfort.
. Toj-day there are gloomy skies and a warm,
drizzling rain that always makes me feel
compassion for those who have been put
away in damp cemeteries. Os course, the
dead care nothing for the weather; but I
cannot help thinking that they do.
Congressmen have not settled down to
their work yet. Nothing of that kind has
begun in earnest. So. I may as well write
a letter on merely miscellaneous subjects,
without much order or design, jumping
from a Washington to a Baltimore topic, as
the case may be.
The advent of a new paper in the Monume
ntal City, called 7 he 7 imes, has caused some
commotion in journalistic and other circles.
The experiment is regarded variously. Put
ting aside any opinions of my own, and re
flecting those of others, I am bound to say
that the larger number of people I meet
predict the failure of the latest newspaper
venture. This unfavorable judgment is
based upon several statements of fact. The
competition is not an underlain quantity.
The dun is too rich and too popular to be
displaced. The American is too old and too
well intrenched to be seriously damaged by
a mere brilliant display of enterprise. With
very little effort these two papers can more
than match a rivalry of novel undertaking.
The proprietor of the Sun has 912,-
000,000. He has a .hold upon the
masses that nothing can break. His paper
has a character for justice, independence
and conservatism that no slap-dash foray
can defeat or cripple. The American has
opulent backing; it is par excellence, the
commercial organ of the city, and there is
no reasonable complaint against its ordina
ry fairness in politics. It has lost none of
its quality since the departure of its man
aging editor. The people of Baltimore are
not unlike those of Augusta in intolerance
of violent mutations. It will be difficult,
therefore, for Mr. Hazleton- unless he be a
veritable Napoleon— to revolutionize jour
nalism in this part of the world, the more
so, as, in addition to the Sun and American,
the Gazelle and Herald have fields of their
own. The organized Democracy may find
it more necessary now than ever to sustain
the former, and there are many poor peo
ple who are satisfied with the latter at $3
per annum. There is some mystery be
hind the Times. It has money to rent
buildings, secure private wires and buy a
sixteen thousand dollar press that receives
a blank sheet from one end and delivers a
lively journal, pasted, folded and ready for
circulation at the other. Where the money
comes from is nobody’s business; but
everybody has a guess. One plausible con
jecture is that “the sinews of war” are fur
nished by corporations tired of an annual
and expensive fight wittf the "Ring” and
the Legislature. Everts year, as lam told,
these corporations have been systematically
blackmailed by political bandits, and now
they have resolved to spend some
money upon a press that will wage
unceasing war upon the plunderers, and
make their Undertaking at Annapolis
hazardous and unprofitable. This idea
may not be founded on fact; but it has a
plausible appearance. It has powerful as
sistance in a Governor sternly fixed upon
reform, and a people restless for the general
unloading of dead-weights. It is certain
that what is called the “Ring” has, in obe
dience to this double pressure, begun to
lighten ship by casting overboard some of
those who are supposed to be the Jonahs.
Small men, so far, have been sent adrift.
Bigger ones may follow. Herein, I suppose,
the editor of the Times sees his opportunity.
He is a young man of talent, boldness and
executive habit. He may prosper, if he has
not attempted too much at once, and if
what seems to me a delicate constitution
can survive the mental and physical strain
he is putting upon it #>
Baltimore has recently lost one of its most
venerable millionaires, and is threatened
with the loss of another. The dead man
belonged to an old Catholic family, and,
while be took good care of his worldly
affairs, did not neglect his eternal welfare.
It was long thought that he would leave
large bequests to the church and to chari
table institutions; but he left no will, and
his family inherit everything. In the funer
al sermon, Archbishop Gibbons did not al
lude to his wealth at all. Stress was laid
upon his fidelity as a man and Christian.
Perhaps he thought that a church debt
was a bad thing to begin with,
and that, once lifted by a gift, it
cooled the ardor of the congregation.
At any rate, none of the Catholic million
aire’s money went to outside parties, al
though, it is said, that more than one cler
gyman’s mind has been affected by stagger
ing under an obligation he had nothing to
Jo with primarily. It. is a common remark
upon American Catholics that their very
rich men seldom remember the church and
its manifold charities when they come to
die.
The other millionaire, whose life hangs
upon a precarious thread, started very poor
and made his way to the control of a vast
corporation by superior tact and talent. He
no doubt benefitted by close contact with
influential Republicans, but he returned fa
vors with interest He has had many trials
that money was impotent to prevent or as
suage. A half century ago, according to.
tradition, he was a bare-footed boy selling
chickens on the wharves. Since then, he
has consorted with the mightiest and lived
like a prince Many acts of public spirit
and private kindness are recorded by him.
Baltimore is not only agitated by political
strife, but a war of gas companies is being
fiercely waged. Meanwhile, many of the
public buildings, great stores and greater
thoroughfares are ablaze with electric lights.
It is hard to say how some boys will de
velop. I recently encountered two school
mates in thisregion. The one of wonderful
talent is now a baffled, obscure man, under
some inexorable spell. The other, who was
once accounted fat-headed and dull, is now
a consummate political leader, a master ot
grand strategy and high in position. The
fable of the hare and the tortoise is con
stantly illustrated in real life among men.
Although colored people here have every
privilege on the cars, I notice that but few
of them travel at all. Those who come
under my observation are smartly dressed
and form—what has been notorious for some
time—a "Maryland delegation.” This nui
sance is usually composed of white and col
ored persons, preachers and Federal office
holders, who, about three times a week,
make a President wish he were dead or
deaf. They are divided into cliques and
have the pertinacity of the devil. The
snubbing they often get would discourage
the Cardiff giant; but it apparently makes
no impression upon these creatures who
have cheeks of brass and adamantine giz
zards.
I have been trying to understand the
prize Xmas card, which netted a thousand
dollars to the designer. Some folks think
the fat young woman, with snaky ribbons
flying around her head, and arms saucily
akimbo, is meant for a Sibyl. That is the
esthetical view. But I never knew before
that Cnmsean Sibyls were brought up in
lager beer saloons, as that one evidently was.
The female on the Xmas card reminds me
of some women I have seen, who did not
look a bit like ideal Sibyls, after drinking
plentifully of egg-neg, and consuming too
much turkey, with trimmings. As, on and
off the stage, the drift is to the fleshly—in
the French sense —I dare say that this sen
sual looking prize card woman would be
worthat least SI,OOO in Circassia or Con
stantinople.
Some of the younger correspondents, who
come here from the South, complain that it
is hard for them to grasp events, in a whole
sale fashion. It is not only difficult, but
impossible. The most even a great genius
can do, under the circumstances, is to give
the results of matters of importance. Two
of the brightest of the profession now at
the Federal Capital are Mr. Richardson, of
the Constitution, and Mr. Gonzalez, of the
News and Courier. The latter is serving his
novitiate here, but has already some of the
most interesting letters within my knowl
edge. Richardson has “won his spurs,”
and will no doubt more than maintain his
reputation. . ~
Speaking of the News and Courier, I see that
our friends, Riordan and Dawson have sold
their paper to a stock company, although, I
presume, their active management will con
tinue. That announcement, which I read
with peculiar interest, was a reminder how
far I too had voyaged upon the river of
Life. It was many a year ago, when Rior
dan and your correspondent were little
boys together at Georgetown College. Even
then he had a gravity and reserve that dis
tinguished him from the boisterous
crowd around us. He was patient
and thorough always. When quite a
youngster, he studied and practiced
stenography, and though an effort was made
to put him in a commercial rut, he could not
be kept away from the newspaper offices.
Both of us were clerks at New Orleans, in
merchants’ houses; bnt while he reported
sermons for the Delta I wrote poetry for it;
and, Bohemian-like, we had very little
money, but infinite expectation. Many a
time we feasted on an oyster pie of small
dimensions, containing but a single bivalve,
for breakfast; while our dinner consisted
of the ten cent lunch that the saloons of
fered along with a drink. I remember that
we had prodigious Appetites in those days,
but they were not always appeased. My
chum was correspondent of the New York
Herald and other papers. This brought him
an income beyond the shop; and when re
mittances arrived at odd intervals, we re
galed ourselves recklessly on the best that a
first class restaurant afforded. Poor as we
-were, we became local celebrities, and,
partly through that and partly because of
Isome powerful social influences, we went
into the best society, and “they knew us at
the opera,” when New Orleans was in its
glory. There were sad surroundings, too,
bnt upon the most memorable of them
pivoted onr future careers. The event that
fixed Riordan at Charleston will never cease
to be a bond of union to us, the more so as
increasing time brings tenderest recollec
tions of those “twenty golden years ago,”
with a never-to-be-forgotten grave between.
When I read that, to me, most pa
thetic valedictory in the News and Courier,
for one wild instant I seemed to live again
that Louisiana idyl, and once more I haunt
ed, with my school-fellow, all of those well
remembered places of the Long Ago. Alas !
Circumstance, “that unspiritual god,” has
worked a metamorphosis that almost makes
me weep. War and death and time have
changed everything. Both of ns have, in
some degree, lived to behold onr dreams
realized, in away different from our plans.
But we did at least succeed. Still, I think
the future has no good thing that can com
pare with the past, for ns. There is noth
ing, in this world, like youth, and that, for
us, has gone. In retrospectively behold
ing again those far-off adventures and van
ished localities, the lines Beranger address
ed to the garret, where he once had dwelt,
swept like a wailing minor chord through
all my musings—
“ Scenes of my early youth I I’d freely give,
Ere my life’s close,
All the dull days I’m destined yet to live
For one of those I”
I recall, as a companion picture to. this,
that there came, in the days that are no
more, to Georgetown College, a boy from
South Carolina, whose face we used to
think had an angelic aspect. The rich
brown hair curled over a brow and visage of
uncommon beauty, and there was a gentle
lustre in the azure eves that heralded the
purity of his soul. He was intelligent, du
tiful and pious. As I write, that boy, now
a man of grave demeanor and middle-aged,
is, with all the pomp and splendor of the
Catholic ritual, surrounded by priests and
prelates, and welcomed by the grandest
melody of a cathedral choir, being conse
crated as the Bishop of North Carolina !
Ah! these and a thousand other things re
mind me that lam no longer young. And,
as if to add more emphasis to the memory
and the reality, I have just found in an old
drawer a picture of what I was when I first
knew Rochefort Riordan and Harry North
rop. The melancholy mist, and the dreary
rain that envelop the outside landscape fall
like sobs upon my spirit as it wanders
among the tombs of the past. J. R R.
THE TRAFFIC IN THE DEAD.
Trial and Conviction of Grandlson Har
ris, Jr —Remarks of Judge Eve in Pass
ing Sentence.
The case of the State vs. Grand ison Har
ris, Jr., charged with a misdemeanor—rob
bing a grave- came on for trial in the City
Court of Richmond county, Tuesday after
noon. The accusation upon which the defend
ant was arraigned was framed under the
tollowing section of the Code of 1873 :
“Section 4,563. If any person or persons
shall remove the dead body of a human be
ing from the grave or other place of inter
ment or from any vault, tomb, sepulchre,
or from any other place, without the con
sent of the friends of said deceased, except
malefactors executed under the sentence
of the law, for the purpose of selling or dis
secting the same, or from mere wanton
ness, such person or persons so offending
shall be punished as prescribed in Section
4,310 of this Code; and any person who
shall receive or purchase such dead body,
knowing it to have been disentered or re
moved from any tomb, vault, or sepulchre,
or such other place, shall, on conviction,
receive the same punishment.”
After able arguments from the Solicitor,
who represented the State, and Mr. Joseph
R. Lamar for the defense, who was ap
pointed by the Court to represent the de
fendant, the case was submitted to the jury,
who, after being absent but a few minutes
in their room, returned with a verdict of
guilty under the second count. Upon mo
tion of L. A. Dugas, Jr., Esq., the Solicitor,
Judge Eve proceeded to pass the following
sentence :
Grandison Harris, Jr.: You have been ar
raigned before the Court upon an indict
ment charging you, first, with having re
moved the dead body of a human being
from the grave, without the consent of the
friends of said deceased —she not being
a malefactor executed under the sentence
of the law—for the purpose of selling the
same, or from mere wantoness; secondly,
with having received the dead body of a hu
man being, knowing that it had been re
moved from the grave for the purpose of
being sold. The issue formed upon this
indictment, between the State of Georgia
and yourself, was submitted to a
jury composed of twelve upright and
intelligent citizens of this county, men
selected jointly by yourself and the rep
resentatives of the State, on account of
their impartiality, who, after patiently lis
tening to and duly considering the evi
dence as presented from the witness stand,
and applying the same to the law as given
them in charge by the Court, returned a
verdict declaring you to be guilty under the
second count of the indictment.
The only evidence before the Court show
ing that you were not guilty under the first
count was your own statement, which fixed
the commission of that heinous offense of
desecrating the grave upon your own fath
er. It has been claimed that the law under
which you have been tried, as well as some
others in the Code, were never intended to
be enforced; that they were intended by the
law-making power to be, as they term
them, dead letters. But I now notify
you, and albothers who hold to this idea,
that it is but a delusion. To a conscientious
Court and an enlightened jury no law unre
pealed is a dead letter. There is not a law
upon the Statute Books of Georgia that is a
dead letter. Every section of the Code and
every statute unrepealed is a living law, and
will be rigidly enforced by this Court, and
every violator of the law arraigned and con
victed will be made to feel the full weight
of the penalty attached to his act.
It was claimed that this crime, if com
mitted, was committed in the interest of
science and for the benefit of the human
raee. The Courts were not established
for the promotion of medical science,
but for the enforcement of the . laws.
The law prohibits the desecration of
graves and the removal of bodies for the
purpose of being sold. And it matters not
what the effect may be upon science, if that
law has been violated, and public decency
and propriety has been offended, as well as
the finer feelings of individuals outraged,
by having the graves of friends and rela
tives entered and their bodies ruthlessly
torn from their last resting place to be
made, by these grave robbers, articles of
merchandise. It is time that the authorities
should cry halt, and the perpetrators severe
ly dealt with by the Courts.
I know of no offense upon the Statute
Books of Georgia that involves more moral
turpitude, pnd requires a greater abandon
ment of all the nobler and finer qualities of
manhood than the one you have been con
victed of—that of being concerned in the
robbing of the sepulchre of the dead and
bartering in dead bodies thus stolen.
The evidence discloses that you have
been concerned in quite a traffic, that has
been carried on in this line. So great has
been the traffic that has been carried on
here that Augusta was rapidly becoming the
chiet market for this line of business—for
the South and West—and that otheis have
been engaged in the business, there can be
no doubt, and the authorities are and will
be vigilant to ferret out all such violations
of the law, and au end will be put to this
nefarious business.
So great is the moral turpitude involved
in the crime of which you have been con
victed that the full penalty prescribed by
the law can hardly be considered an ade
quate punishment. I will give the full
penalty of the law, hoping that it will be a
lesson to you and make you an example to
warn others to avoid your nefarious prac
tices. It is, therefore, ordered by the Court
that you, Grandson Harris, Jr., be placed
at hard work in the chain gang, npqn the
streets of Augusta, the same being a part
of the public works of Richmond county,
for the term of twelve months and pay a
fine of one thousand dollars and the costs
of prosecution
THE OLD DOMINION.
A Readjuter Caaens—Rld<U«.berger Offers
His BIU. *
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.?
Richmond, Vl, January 10.—The Read
justers of the General Assembly have been
in caucus since half-past seven, and at mid
night are still in session. The debt bill
was discussed, but final action on the ques
tion of its introduction was postponed and
consideration of the nomination of Capitol
officers occupied the attention of the caucus
without result. A committee was appointed
to investigate the Second Auditor’s office
and report to the Legislature during the
session of 1879-80, but were prevented
from bq doing by the adjournment of that
body. Owing to the biennial sessions of
the Legislature, the report was delayed until
now. The report will show that ninety
three thousand dollars of coupons have
been fraudulently disposed of. It will be
presented to-morrow and will doubtless
create a sensation.
Richmond, January 11.—In the Senate,
to-day, Riddleberger introduced his bill, the
title of which is, “To ascertain and declare
Virginia’s equitable share of the debt creat
ed before and actually existing at the time
of the partition of her territory, and her
resources, and to provide for the issuance
of bonds covering the same and the regular
and prompt payment of the interest there
on.”
Burned the Second Time.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Indrpzndbxcx. Ind., January 10.—A fire
last night destroyed the Southern Chair
Works here, the property of John Steck
worth - insured. This is the second burn
ing of the works within seven months and
is supposed to have been incendiary. Loss,
IN THE WIDOW.
THE GUITEAU TRIAL APPROACHING
( ITS CLOSE.
Mr. Dnvidge Makes the Opening Speech
For the Prosecution—The Prisoner In.
term pts But Falls to Ruffle the Tem
per of Counsel.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, January 12.—The audience
which assembled in the Court room this
morning to listen to the opening argument
to the jury in the Guiteau case was a large
and intelligent one, which, entering the
room at an early hour, waited patiently the
arrival of the Court, counsel and prisoner.
The Marshal gave spectators due notice that
no one would be permitted to leave until the
hour for recess, and, for the purpose of em
phasizing his remarks, ordered that the
main door should be locked. At ten o’clock,
sharp, the jury entered, and a few moments
later the Court was called to order. Davidge
then took position in front of the jury and
opened his argument with a disclaimer of
any intention -to make a set speech,
but expressed his simple desire to ren
der the jury what aid he could in
their present and solemn duty. The
time had now come in this trial when the
jury were to become factors. Whatever dis
order or levity might have characterized the
trial, there was but one sentiment in respect
of the conduct of the jury. All commended
their dignified deportment and close and
patient attention to the evidence, and he
could not doubt as they had received the
commendation of all in the past they would
continue to deserve it in the future by their
decision of ttie question before them.
“There is here, gentlemen,” he continued,
“but a simple point for discussion and con
sideration—the subject of insanity. The
Court will tell you that in this land ot law
it is not allowable for a man coolly and de
liberately and treacherously to slay another,
and then to say he had no malice. The
Court will tell you when it comes to charge
you that to constitute the crime of murder,
the existence of malice is wholly unnecessa
ry, and that indeed the crime committed is
infinitely worse in the absence of that ele
ment than if it were present. In the be
ginning of the trial, as you will all recollect,
an ineffectual attempt was made in the di
rection of showing that the death of the
President was attributed to the mal
practice of the sufgeons who attended him
with much fidelity and ability. That at
tempt was short-lived, however, and was
very speedily abandoned. So that there is
now but a single question for you to deter
mine, and that is the question of insanity.
In the progress of the trial very many
vague and general expressions have crept
into the case. We have heard of crazy men,
of men off their balance, of insane men; and
hence it was necessary to apply to the Court
for a clear and perspicuous definition as to
what is insanity in a legal sense. Medical
experts have defined insanity from the
stand-point of medicine, and it was neces
sary to have it defined from the stand-point
of the law. Even if a man be deficient in
intelligence it does not follow that he shall
be permitted to commit murder with im
punity. It takes one degree of intelligence
for a man to make a contract, another to
make a will, and another to do any other
act; but when you come to crime—such a
crime as we have here, murder, ‘murder
most foul and unnatural’- - the law requires
a very slight degree of intelligence indeed.
It was, gentlemen, in order to make the
questiion perfectly clear, and to abridge
your labors so far as to prevent your being
led astray by the introduction of irrelevant
matter, that the prosecution asked the
Court to state succinctly what constitutes
malice and insanity in legal intellect. The
Court has spoken, and it has not spoken in
any vague or ambiguous language. It has
laid down two instructions for your guid
ance, which I will now read.” [Here Mr.
Davidge read Judge Cox’s instructions No.
1 and No. 2.] In commenting upon the
first instruction, Mr. Davidge said: “That
is, gentlemen of the jury, if any human be
ing has any degree of intelligence which
enables him to understand the act he is
doing, and if he has sense enough to know
and does know, that that act is in violation
of the law of the land, or wrong, then no
frenzy, no passion, will afford any excuse
whatever; then no disease of his moral na
ture will constitute any excuse whatever ;
then no belief, however profound—though
man, though reason and reflection, may
reach the conclusion that the act is the sug
gestion of and command of Almighty God -
wit! afford any excuse whatever for the per
petration of crime. His sole and exclusive
excuse is a disease of the mind, obliterating
the sense of difference between right and
wrong and absolutely controlling the judg
ment and reason of the party. Thus you
will see that the degreee of reason necessa
ry to make a man responsible is very limit
ed indeed. Thus, you will see that the
man may be here who has been styled a
crank, or off his balance, and even partially
insane, and yet may be entirely responsible 1
for the crime. What is the act committed 1
here? Murder, murder, murder, by lying
in wait—what is commonly called assassina- '
tion.”
As Mr. Davidge traced the process of reas
oning by which the prisoner gradually
reached the conviction that “but one little
life interposed between himself and possi
bly great benefits,” Guiteau became rest
less, and for the first time since the open
ing of Court indicated, by his nervous twist
ing about, the usual preliminaries to a se
ries of interruptions, which, in this in
stance, quickly followed. “Not often," said
Mr. Davidge, "in the record of heinous
crimes, do we have such plain and pointed
evidence as to the first conception of crime.
In this case the suggestion came to the
wretch in the night, as he was lying in his
bed.”
“It came to me when the Lord got ready
to have it,” snarled the prisoner.
Mr. Davidge continued: “This thought
or suggestion came to him on the 18th of
May. Still thinking that he might obtain
office he sought and kept his hands clean,
and he made another effort on the 28th of
May to induce the President—”
Guiteau called out from the dock, “I
wouldn’t have taken a foreign mission after
the first of June if it had been offered to
me.”
Mr. Davidge (apparently not heeding
him) —“On the 28th of May.”
Guiteau—“lam talking about the Ist of
June.”
Davidge (pausing a moment)—“Just lis
ten to him.”
Guiteau (sneeringly) —“They would lis
ten to you, but yoqr talk is so weak it is
hardly worth listening to,"
For several minutes Quiteaq continued to
interject his pommeuts with the evident in
tention of annoying Mr. Davidge, but find
ing he could not effect this, he gradually
subsided into complete silence.
Mr. Davidge: “How great a degree of in
telligence does it take to inform a man that
that is wrapg ? What degree of intelligence
was necessary to make a lawyer know it waa
in violation of the law of the land to kill ?
What degree of intelligence was necessary
to make a religious man to know that the
everlasting edict had gone forth from Al
mighty God, ’thou shalt commit no mur
der?’ There is no hardship in holding a
man to responsibility when he has sense
enough to know the act he is doing and that
it is wrong. It is that element which gives
such great importance to the present case.
If I conceived it possible that by your ver
diet you were to assert that the degree of in
telligence did not exist he|e, I would
deplore that result more deeply than I have
language to express. I would regard a re
sult of that soft as tantamount to an invita
tion to every crack-brained, ill-balanced
man, with or without a motive, to resort to
the knife or to the pistol and to slay a man
for party purposes or it may be without any
purpose whatever.”-
Atter recess, when Court reassembled, the
crowd was even greater than in the morn
ing, and for every one that left the Court
room half a dozen new applicants pressed
for admission. Davidge resumed his argu
ment at 105, p. m. Touching the evi
dence produced of the existence of insanity
in the Guiteau family, as bearing upon the
probability of the prisoner’s insanity, Da
vidge summed up the force of this evidence
with the remark: “But the unanswerable
testimony of experts settles the question
how much effect this collateral insanity
could have upon the mental condition of
the prisoner. It is but the merest mockery
to discuss this question, in view of the un
doubted ability of this man to distinguish
between right and wrong. ’*
Guiteau interrupted, and shouted out: "I
have always been a Christian man, and for
six years have been strictly virtuous. Don’t
forget that. Don’t forget that, either."
Davidge then passed to a review of the
evidence offered by the defense as to the
habits of life and history of the prisoner
from his birth up, saying: “It will be for
you, gentlemen of the jury, to. (determine
whether there is a single jot oj tittle to show
that this prisoner was not perfectly respon
sible fqr his act op the 3d of July. You will
find that they have carefully picked out and
held up to your view everything in the en
tire career of this man which may be con
sidered odd or peculiar, and it is for you to
consider how much value can be attached
to this evidence when you come to consider
whether this man did not know, on the 2d
of July.that it was wrong for him to kill the
Chief Magistrate of the Nation.” Mr.
Davidge then took up the Oneida Communi
ty, and spoke of Guiteau aa wallowing there
for six years.
Guiteau angrily shouted: “And I say it is
false. I didn’t wallow. I’m just as pure as
you are, Davidge, and a good deal purer.
I went there to save my soul, not from lust.
Put that down, Davidge, and don’t you for
get it.”
Revised Ratee For Naßs.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Ptttsbubg, Pa., January 12.—The West
ern Nail Association have revised the card
zate tar nails fifteen oenta per keg.
S 2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
BLACKBURN AND BURBRIDGE.
The Kentucky Representative Pours
Hot Shot Into the Ki-Buhwharker.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, January 12 —The following
letter and card have been furnished for
publication :
House of Representatives, 1
Washington, D. C„ January 9, 1882. |
General 8. G. Burbridge: Sib—Your let
ter, dated January 6, was handed me last
night, and as I find it with the accompany
ing documents given to the public in this
morning’s prints, I presume it was intend
ed for the public, as its reception and my
own must have been simultaneous. Now,
sir, it is only with the personal phase of
the issue, so far as it regards myself, that I
can deal, and as you have abandoned that,
I feel no longer any interest in
your communications: As to your
insinuations in regard to the yellow
fever, which you so gratuitously throw in
to distract attention from what had been
said of yourself, all I have to say is that if.
With the proofs of which you profess knowl
edge and of which I am ignorant, and which
you regard as ample, your courage ever en
ables you to formulate the charge and be
come responsible therefor, then will there
be ample time left me to give it considera
tion. Respectfully, Jo. 0. S. Blaokbubn.
Wahlngton, January 12, 1882. —To the
Public: A correspondence between General
Steven G. Burbridge, formerly of Kentucky,
and now a citizen of Pennsylvania and my
self, begun by him, has through his in
strumentality been obtruded upon the
public attention. I regret this, but not be
cause I have any reason to fear the judg
ment of the public on the questions in
volved. For the soldiers of the Union army
who respected the law of honorable war
fare, I have no feelings but respect and ap
preciation of their manhood. Gen. Bur
bridge is outside of this pale by reason of
atrocities well known to the people of
Kentucky, which have justly made
him an outcast from the State where
honorable men have buried in honor
able reconciliation the animosities of
that unhappy period. I share fully the
detestation of Gen. Burbridge and his con
duct which is entertained alike by Confed
erates and Union men in the State of Ken
tucky, and this feeling I have expressed on
a proper occasion. The fact was made
known to him and when he interrogated me
as to my utterances respecting him, I refused
to modify my language or to accept his at
tempt at self-vindication. I give him frank
ly this answer. His response is not
an appeal to the usages by which
gentlemen have been governed, but
an attempt to retort by counter insult.
If this course is satisfactory to General Bur
bridge or his friends, I cannot complain. I
dismiss him to the enjoyment of any honors
he may have acquired by this effort to re
habilitate a reputation which, resting, as it
does upon the known fficts of a shameful
personal history, cannot be made worse by
aught that I can now say against him or im
proved by his own asseverations of inno
cence and certificates of character. These are
not required by gentlemen who have prac
ticed a decent respect for the opinions of
mankind. J. S. 0. Blackburn.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Washington, Ga., January 11.—The old
year has been left in the calendar of the
past, but has thrown the dullness of its de
clining hours over the young days of the
new. The unsatisfactory trade of the last
season, which was the result of a general
drouth in the Summer and too lavish use of
merchandise, on a bat is of credit, imparts
to the countenance of merchant and planter
alike a look that betrays their heavy cogita
tions, while the negro gives expression
to his moneyless condition, and, conse
quently, his dissatisfaction, by “pulling up
his pegs” and moving to his neighbor’s,
where he vainly hopes to reap for himself a
a richer harvest, and in this way everybody
is in possession of his neighbor’s hands.
This exchange still continues, and promises
to exceed the migrations of former years,
while a few have ventur->d to higher lati
tudes, and are traveling towards North
Georgia —a Utopia in their dreams. Though
this movement has not assumed the shape
of an exodus, the economy that this state
of affairs will necessitate, among all classes,
will materialize into good and happy re
sults, before another Fall Arrives, and, in
the end prove an auxiliary to common
prosperity. Our County Court has been
quite busy since the holidays, disposing of
cases that have recently crowded its docket.
A white in m whose name is here suppres
ed, charg d by the last grand jury
with the crime of invincible repugnance,
produced b.i his infatuation for a woman of
opposite color, was recently jailed and on
trial was relieved of SSO - fine and cost.—
Col. John A. Stephens, a nephew of the old
Commoner, and a gentleman of high legal
attainments, has purchased the residence of
Mr. George Palmer and will practice his
profession at this place.—A house in the
village of Delhi, the property of Mr. A.
Cohen, a merchant of “sorrow and acquaint
ed with grief,” was destroyed by fire several
nights since, and the burning was the work
of an incendiary—insurance, s3oo.—Mrs.
Dr. Gill Wootten formerly Mrs. Dr. William
Jordan and sister of Col. L. M. Hill, was
buried yesterday after a brief illness. She
was connected with the richest and best
families of the State, was an exemplary
Christian, a cheerful giver, and ended a life
of many private virtues, and in her death
the poor have lost their friend. No one
p ominent virtue adorned her character,
for her life was ennobled by them all, and
her merits are still untold.—Hon. 8. W.
Wynn, an ex-member of the Legislature, a
valuable and prominent citizen of this place,
is ill from a stroke of paralysis'and his con
dition is now precarious and thus the good
are passing away. J.
A LUCKY DEPOSIT,
An Atlanta Gentlemen Scores a Finan*
clal Stroke,
(Atlanta Constitution,)
Mr. T. M. Horsey, of this city, received a
few days ago probably the largest amount
of money yet received by any Southerner
for Confederate bonds, getting over $2,200
in cash. He had about $300,000 of a
series of bonds that were advertised for
that had been laying loose in an old trunk
for several years. When offers were first
made for these bonds he looked tjiem up,
sorted them and put them under lock and
key. He was advised to self when two dol
lars was offered, but declined, stating that
fie haff held them so long that he was able
to hold them a little longer, and that there
was evidently a margin beyond the price
offered, and he was disposed to get that
margin himself, as he had already lost
heavily on the investment. After a while
he telegraphed to Mr. Willis, of Charleston,
who wired asking him to make an offer off
his bonds. In the meantime he received a
telegram offering him nine dollars. He
took this dispatch to Mr. Aaron Haas, of
this city, and sold him the bonds at nine
dollars a thousand. Mr. Haas at once sold
some of the bonds at nine dollars, and
could have sold all at a this figure, except
that he held them for sl2. The market
turned and he bad to sell for less. Mr.
Horsey has outside of these about $300,-
000 of other Confederate bonds. General
Sherman destroyed for him about $300,000
worth of cotton and rosin when he passed
through this fcftate, and President Lincoln’s
emancipation proclamation freed oeer 400
slaves for him. His direct lass, therefore;
by the result of the ran up considera
bly more than a million dollars. At the
clise of the war he found himself with two
dollars and a half in his pocket.
READJVSTERS’ CAUCUS,
They Make a Division of the Spalls, And
Da Not Forget Their Organ
< (By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Richmond, Va., January 12.—The Read
jasters' caucus, last night, nominated the
following State officers: Second Auditor, H.
H. Dyson, present incumbent; Secretary of
Commonwealth, W. 0. Elam, editor of the
Whig (Readjnsterorgan); Register of Land
Office and Superintendent of Public Build
ings, Geo. Brockeubrough, present incum
bent; Treasurer, fho*- Bievely, of Rock
bridge county , Superintendent of Peniten
tiary, 8, 0. Williams, incumbent; Superin
tendent of Public Printing, R. F, Walker,
incumbent Massey refused to acquiesce in
caucus rules in the matter of Auditor of
Public Accounts, and that office waa passed
by for future consideration.
In the State Senate, to-day, a message was
read from Governor Cameron, vetoing the
bill recently passed “to ratify and confirm
the consolidation of the Richmond and
Southwestern Bailway Company with the
Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio Narrow Guage
Road under the name and style of the Rich
mond and Louisville Railroad Company.”
The House, to-day, passed the Senate bill
No. 50—“ one of the forerunners of the
Riddleberger Debt bill’" —which provides
that all coupons offered in payment of taxes
shall first undergo scrutiny before a jury as
to their genuineness, and that in the mean
while the tax payer shall pay hia taxes in
lawful money. The bill now goes to the
Governor and it is expected that it will not
bedalayed.
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The Jeannette.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, January 12.—The Secretary
of State has just received the following tele
gram from our Charge d’Affairs at St.
Petersburg, respecting the fate of the Jean
nette and her crew : “Danenhower and five
of the crew of the whale boat arrived at
Yakutsk, December 17th. They were com
fortably lodged and all their wants supplied.
Melville and six men were expected soon,
Delong and the crew of the first cutter had
not been found on November 16th—the last
THK STOCK LAW.
Governor Hagood Approves the Bill.
(Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Columbia, January 12.—Governor Ha
good returned the Stock Law bill to the
Legislature last night, with his approval,
accompanied by a message, stating his rea
sons for approving the bill and his objec
tions to the measure, and recommending
supplemental legislation to remove what he
regards the objectionable features. He
says the act is seriously defective in abol
ishing common pasturage and should be
amended so as to restore this ancient right,
while retaining all the economic advantages
proposed by the act. The message created
much surprise and is doubtless an able pa
per, showing a desire to protect the rights
and do full justice to all, but it has caused
much dissatisfaction among both those who
favored and those who opposed the law.
It has been the chief topic of conversation
to-day. The message was referred to the
Committee on Agriculture, but a report
will probably not be made before Saturday.
L. A. R.
A BIG DIVIDKND.
Tile Langley Factory Declares Twelve
and a Half Per Cent. For Six Months.
If factories don’t pay in Augusta and
vicinity, it will be difficult to find a place
where they do. As an exemplification of
what they accomplish here, it may be stated
that the Directors of the Langley Factory,
on yesterday, declared a dividend of twelve
and a half per cent, to its stockholders,
from the earnings of the past six months.
Where is the factory at the North that can
boat or begin to equal that ? The factory
made about $87,000 during the year 1881
on a capital stock of $400,000, and its divi
dends for that time were per cent.—B
per cent, in July and 12)£ in January.
A KBW FACTORY,
A Company of Northern Capitalists to
Build a. Mill On the Canal.
We learn that a number of Northern capi
talista, with Mr. Inman, of New York, at
their head, have organized a company for
the purpose of building a cotton mill in
this city. The capital will be five hundred
thousand dollars, with the privilege of in
creasing it to one million. It is said that
the Harker tract, just beyond West Bounda
ry, has been select id as the site for the new
factory. There will be only one Augusta
stockholder. The application to Richmond
Superior Court Tor a charter for the compa
ny, will be published in a few days. The
corporators mean business and intend to
commence work at once. The work goes
bravely on, and it will not be many years
before all the water power of the Augusta
Canal is utilized.
THK KLKCTRIC LIGHT.
Two Ten-Light Machines at the Knter
prlse Factory,
Last night, twenty electric lights illumi
nated the Enterprise Factory almost as
bright as day. This was the first time that
the factory had been so lighted, a few hav
ing been started one evening some time
ago, but extinguished after an hour or two,
in order that a different arrangement of the
lights might be made. The factory here
tofore has been using gasoline. In the
weaving room were placed one hundred
and thirty-two gasoline lights, open burn
ers. There are now seven electric lights in
this room, which illuminate it in every
nook and corner, making every thread as
clearly visible as at noonday. The gasoline
was burning last evening as well as the
electric burners, and in order to test their
relative brightness an experiment was made.
The electricity was shut off and the gasoline
lights alone were left. The vast room pre
sented a gloomy appearance as the electrio
light disappeared. Then the electric cur
rent was turned on and the full brilliancy
of the white light again shone over the
place. Now the gasoline lights were extin
guished, but the fact was barely discernible,
so little difference did it make in the light
in the room.
The electric lights are covered all around
by ground glass globes, so that no spark can
possibly fall or floating particles ol cotton
approach the light.
It requires twenty-horse power of water
to run the two ten light machines, which
were purchased from the United States
Electric Light Company for $3,500 for
the two. The cost of the twenty lights, we
understand, counting the rent of water
power and the interest on the money ex
pended in the purchaseof the “plant,” will
be about four hundred dollars per annum.
ART EXHIBITION.
A Grund Display Expected In Macon In
October.
Macon, Ga., January 11.—A large and en
thusiastic meeting of representative citizens
was held in this city to-day to discuss plane
fora grand national art exhibition. The
original intention of the projectors was to
have the exhibition in May, but the enter
prise has met with such encouragement
and assumed such proportions as will ne
cessitate more time and extensive prepara
tions. The meeting was presided over by
Rev. Dr. A. J. Battle, President of Mercer
University, who addressed the meeting.
He was followed by 001. Thos. Hardeman
and others. Committees were appointed!
and will report plans and programme at an.
early date. The exhibition will probably
be held in October next, and the projectors
expect to make it superior to anything of'
the kind ever before ettempted in America.
THE MIGRATION TO BEAUFORT.
Cheap Rates of Passage, Low Rents,
Cheap Homes,
(From the Sea Island News.)
We understand that the Port Royal and
Augusta Railway Company will Rsue tickets
to emigrants in lots of ten or more at the
rate of three cents per mile, to those who.
are leaving the upper counties for the sea
board. In Beaufort county there are large
tracts of land available for settlement which
can be purchased or rented at low figures.
One of our citizens who is the owner of
several plantations on Port Royal Island
will sell them all the land they require at
the rate of three dollars per acre. Others
have erected buildings on their places and
have in the past two weeks rented con
siderable land to the Edgefield pilgrim
' —i
The Knights.
The Grand Coi&mandry of Knights
Templar of Georgia meets in Savannah in
May. It is said that Palestine Commandry
of that city is making extensive prepara
tions to. entertain the body, and all visiting
. Commandries and Knights. The triennial
conclave of Knights Templar of the United
States will meet in San Francisco, Cal., in
August, 1883, and the California Knights
propose to eclipse anything that has ever
been done in this country in the way of en
tertaining. It is said that they will make
the railroad fare for Knights Templar to at
tend the conclave almost nothing, and the
preparations that are being made for enter
taining the Knights while in San Francisco
are simply grand, judging from what we
have heard, and the magnificent style in
which they entertained at the last triennial
conclave in Chicago, as well as the welt
known high standing of California Knights:
Templar, their wealth and unbounded hos
pitality, we have no doubt the 22d trien
nial conclave to be held in San Francisco in
August, 1883, will be one of the grandest
occasions that ever took place on this con
tinent.
How Mweb Population Do We Want*
(Missouri Republican.)
Our country began the present century
with a population of 5,308,000; it now has
50,155,000. The increase has been nine
fold in eighty years. The growth in the
last decade was over 30 per cent. This rate,
if continued, will give us 65,000,000 in
1890, and 84,500,000 in 1900-a growth
from 5,308,000t0 84,500,000 in the round
century, and it will enable the
children of to-day, when they shall have
reached middle age, to look upon a popula
tion of 109,000,000, and by the time they
shall have reached three score and ten, to
look upon a, population of 237,000,000.
These are staggering figures. It is hardly
conceivable that our present rate of growth
, will be maintained for sixty years to come,
for even if immigrants should continue to
come to our shores in such armies as now,
it would be necessary for ns to take meas
ures to repel them. There are few children,
if any, now living who will be willing to
see two hundred million souls packed to
gether in the country. The time will come,
then, when we shall cease to court more
population, and shall say it is enough.
McDuffie Superior Court.
An adjourned term of McDuffie Superior
Court was held at Thomson this week, Judge
Claiborne Snead presiding. Owing to the
illness of Solicitor-General Wright during
a part of the last term, Judge Snead called
an adjourned session to clear off the crimi
nal docket, and save the expense and delay
incident to a postponement to the next reg
ular sitting of the Court. Business was
rapidly disposed of, and the criminal docket
finished by noon yesterday. The remainder
of the day was devoted to the trial of civil
eases. Court adjourned last night. The
grand jury pay high compliments to tha
Judge and Solicitor-General in their gen
eral presentments.